LATEST COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS NEWS

Foundation reverts to pre-lockdown BTL offering

Foundation Home Loans has returned its buy-to-let product range to its pre-lockdown structure with...

Mortgage Brain’s ESIS volumes greater than pre-Covid levels

Mortgage Brain has seen the proportion of ESIS generated by its sourcing systems for...

SortRefer reports record business levels

SortRefer has revealed significant growth and record business levels in June amid the Covid-19...

Annual house price growth in negative territory

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that UK house prices fell by 1.4% in...

The Beverley offers ‘bounce back’ mortgage deals for business owners

Beverley Building Society is offering its ‘Bounce Back' mortgage initiative featuring fresh criteria to...

Castle Trust launches ‘Covid-19 level 3’ criteria

Castle Trust Bank has introduced new criteria which is says is in response to...

Landlords “taking brunt of the pandemic”

ARLA Propertymark has reported that the number of agents seeing rent rises hit an...

BoE: mortgage lending remains weak

The Bank of England has reported that the mortgage market remained weak in May...

Phoebus Software raises £2k for charity during lockdown

In the three months since the lockdown started, staff at Phoebus Software Ltd (PSL),...

Estate agents “set for an exciting summer”

NAEA Propertymark has revealed that the average number of sales agreed per estate agent...

LMS: instruction volumes beginning to steady

LMS has published its latest weekly update, tracking remortgage market performance through the Covid-19...

The Skipton donates £200k to mental health charity

The Skipton Building Society, its board and colleagues, are donating £200,000 to support the...

Mortgage Brain: product numbers at “post-pandemic high”

 Product numbers increased last week to the highest level seen since the pandemic took...

FIBA pleased with BTL webinar series take-up

Specialist finance trade body, the Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA), has reported that over...
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COMMENT

Commonhold and Leasehold Reform

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

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